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Evaluation of a wearable wireless device with artificial intelligence, iThermonitor WT705, for continuous temperature monitoring for patients in surgical wards: a prospective comparative study.
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- Artificial intelligence in nursing: an integrative review of clinical and operational impacts.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
- Exploration of fever characteristics in parturients under continuous temperature monitoring during labor analgesia and analysis of the impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes: an observational study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- Continuous Temperature Telemonitoring of Patients with COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases Treated in Hospital-at-Home: VitureSensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effect of Aggressive Warming versus Routine Thermal Management on the Incidence of Perioperative Hypothermia in Patients Undergoing Thyroid Surgery: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Controlled Trial.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2024Article
- [Correlation Between 6 Characteristics of Perioperative Hypothermia and Allogeneic Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Abdominal Surgery Patients].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2023Article
- A Novel Non-Invasive Thermometer for Continuous Core Body Temperature: Comparison with Tympanic Temperature in an Acute Stroke Clinical Setting.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- High-frequency temperature monitoring for early detection of febrile adverse events in patients with cancer.Cancer cell · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate a new-generation, non-invasive, wireless axillary thermometer with artificial intelligence, iThermonitor (WT705, Raiing Medical, Beijing, China), and to ascertain its feasibility for perioperative continuous body temperature monitoring in surgical patients.
settingDepartments of Biliary Surgery and Operating Room and the post-anaesthesia care unit of a university teaching hospital in Chengdu, China.
participantsA total of 526 adult surgical patients were consecutively enrolled.
designThis was a prospective observational study. Axillary temperatures were continuously recorded with iThermonitor throughout the whole perioperative period. The temperatures of the contralateral armpit were measured with mercury thermometers at 8:00, 12:00, 16:00 and 20:00 every day and were used as references. OUTCOME MEASURES: The outcomes were the accuracy and precision of the temperatures measured with iThermonitor, the validity to detect fever and the feasibility of continuous wear. Pairs of temperatures were evaluated with Student's t-test, Pearson's correlation and repeated-measures Bland-Altman plot.
resultsA total of 3621 pairs of body temperatures were obtained. The temperatures measured with iThermonitor agreed with those measured with the mercury thermometers overall, with a mean difference of 0.03°C±0.35°C and a moderate correlation (r
conclusionsiThermonitor is promising for continuous remote temperature monitoring in surgical patients. However, further developments are still needed to improve the precision of this device, especially for temperature detection in underweight patients and those with lower body temperature. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ChiCTR1900024549; Results (registered on 5 July 2019).
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